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Sunday, November 15, 2015

Canadian Mag Maclean’s Glamorizes Evil - Robert Spencer

by Robert Spencer

What could be more multicultural than featuring a jihad murderer posing with a jihad victim?

The Canadian newsmagazine Maclean’s has made an all-out bid to
get noticed this week by placing confessed jihad murderer on Omar Khadr on its cover.
Khadr, a Canadian citizen, pleaded guilty to war crimes charges in
connection with killing of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Spee in
Afghanistan in 2002, and spent ten years in Guantanamo. For the
mainstream media, killing an American soldier and serving a stretch in
Gitmo is an irresistible one-two punch, making Khadr both a victim and a
hero.

Looking for all the world like a successful young
professional, Khadr beams out from the cover, accompanied by Rinelle
Harper, a victim of racist violence against Canada’s aboriginal people,
and Amanda Lindhout, who was kidnapped and tortured by Islamic
jihadists. Possibly Maclean’s editors were unaware of the irony of
having Khadr share the cover with Lindhout, as he almost certainly
shares the world view and priorities of her captors; or maybe they
thought putting the two together on the cover along with a genuine
victim of racism would buttress Khadr’s victimhood status and obscure
his ideological connection with Lindhout’s torturers.

Whatever
the case may be, Maclean’s cover is no less grotesque than the Rolling
Stone cover that featured Boston Marathon jihad murderer Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev. Grotesque and revealing: confirmed once again is the
mainstream media’s inveterate hostility to America and the West, such
that those who wage war against the United States and its allies, and
who are punished for doing so, are celebrated as heroes, while those who
defend the U.S. and Judeo-Christian civilization are despised and
marginalized.

One need not search Maclean’s cover archives to
know that neither Sgt. Spee nor any of his comrades were ever featured –
unless in a piece disparaging and criticizing the U.S. military and war
effort. Canadian freedom activist Ezra Levant said of the Khadr cover:
“It’s a disgrace that he is on the cover of a mainstream news magazine,
being portrayed as a victim, and in the company of two real victims,
including a victim of Islamic terrorism. They have managed to transform a
pathological murderer into a ‘victim,’ providing Al Qaeda with a great
PR victory.” Levant himself, however, despite his heroic stand for the
freedom of speech against the authoritarian and oppressive Canadian
Human Rights Commission, has almost certainly never graced the Maclean’s
cover – unless to herald a hit piece attacking him.

Maclean’s is a Canadian outpost of the politically correct
perspective that dominates the mainstream media in the U.S., Britain and
Western Europe. Publications of this ilk would never dream of featuring
on their covers, at least in a positive way, Dutch politician Geert
Wilders, who has spoken out so strongly against the perils of allowing
large numbers of Muslims, with the attachment of so many among them to
Sharia and jihad, into the West. But Omar Khadr or others who have
attacked the West either in word or deed? Fine.

In October
2010, at the height of the controversy over the proposed Ground Zero
Mosque, the New York Times ran an extensive profile of my colleague
Pamela Geller. Entitled “Outraged, and Outrageous,”
the piece accused her of waging “a form of holy war through Atlas
Shrugs, a Web site that attacks Islam with a rhetoric venomous enough
that PayPal at one point branded it a hate site,” and described her in
superior and condescending tones ordinarily reserved for anthropologists
studying primitive peoples in the bush. The following month, the Times
profiled Daisy Khan, wife of Ground Zero Mosque imam Faisal Abdul Rauf,
calling her “an Eloquent Face of Islam”
and lamenting that “despite her message of inclusion, Ms. Khan has been
accused by critics of being an extremist in a moderate’s garb” and
praising her for having “gained a reputation as a bridge builder.”

In a sane world with a responsible media, one might think that one of
the organizers of a project to build what would certainly have been
taken by Muslims worldwide as a triumphal mosque built at the site of a
jihad victory would have been the subject of the skeptical, sneering
profile, while the defender of a view held by 70% of Americans – that
the mosque should not be built – would have been lauded as a hero, but
the anti-American bias of the mainstream media is now so pervasive as to
be taken for granted nearly everywhere.

No one was surprised,
after all, when CNBC moderators lit into the Republican Presidential
candidates as if they had all committed heinous crimes, while asking the
Democrats, in the words of Ted Cruz, “which of you is more handsome and
why?” Cruz declared: “The questions asked in this debate illustrate why
the American people don’t trust the media.” The Maclean’s cover
featuring Omar Khadr is a further illustration of why that mistrust is
wholly justified. The mainstream media has become a propaganda organ of
the enemies of freedom. The only good aspect of this degeneration is
that the media’s bias is now so naked and obvious that few people, if
any, think of Maclean’s and its stateside counterparts as worth trusting
or paying any attention to at all.

Robert SpencerSource: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260766/canadian-mag-macleans-glamorizes-evil-robert-spencer Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.